Rugby World Cup: Human spirit prevails

When Nelson Mandela wore a Springbok shirt and cap at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg he made one of the most powerful statements of forgiveness, unity, inclusion, and healing ever offered.

Nevertheless, Mandela would undoubtedly enjoy the irony that the English team facing his South Africa in today’s World Cup final is the very epitome of those values though he may be less enamoured by the sum total of those parts.